adobe 11 or apeture
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They are different tools.
Photoshop elements is for pixel editing. Aperture is an image development and cataloguing program, which you may then send to a pixel editor (Photoshop, Elements, GIMP etc) later for further editing. That's not to say elements can't do what aperture does, just it's aimed at single images not fast work over many images.
Personally I wouldn't be buying aperture at the moment. It's overdue an update and it's not clear if apple has any interest in releasing one. Many key Aperture users are starting to switch to Adobes Lightroom (which I just upgraded to version 4 and think is excellent)
Photoshop elements is for pixel editing. Aperture is an image development and cataloguing program, which you may then send to a pixel editor (Photoshop, Elements, GIMP etc) later for further editing. That's not to say elements can't do what aperture does, just it's aimed at single images not fast work over many images.
Personally I wouldn't be buying aperture at the moment. It's overdue an update and it's not clear if apple has any interest in releasing one. Many key Aperture users are starting to switch to Adobes Lightroom (which I just upgraded to version 4 and think is excellent)
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As above - Lightroom is more of a fair comparison for Aperture. There are some complaints about Lightroom, but on the whole (I'm using 4.3) it's a cracking piece of software that does pretty much everything I need. I rarely find myself needing Photoshop.
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Why don't you just trial them both (used to be 30 days free trial for each of them) and decide which is better for you.
I preferred using Aperture as I have an Apple mindset (why would I use an Apple if I didn't?) but Lightroom looked like it may have slightly more to offer.
In the end I just stuck to using iPhoto as my editor as if I can't fix it in there the photo was probably a non-starter anyway.
I preferred using Aperture as I have an Apple mindset (why would I use an Apple if I didn't?) but Lightroom looked like it may have slightly more to offer.
In the end I just stuck to using iPhoto as my editor as if I can't fix it in there the photo was probably a non-starter anyway.
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Because Apple no longer provide a trial of Aperture.
But to do a trial of Lightroom 4 and Elements 11. They are both quite different and depending on what you want to do you will prefer one to the other. I wouldn't buy elements from the app store though, updates tend to be a bit slower and you miss out on the included (but not very good) image browser app.